Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Peter,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbs, text-segmenting and clause-types


> On 01/08/2005 08:15, Rolf Furuli wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > The distinction between WAYYIQTOL and WEYIQTOL is often believed to be one
> > of apocopation, but that is not correct. The only verbs whose apocopation
> > can be seen in unpointed texts are lamed he verbs. ...
>
> And also in certain hiphil forms, such as the example I mentioned.
No! We know from the DSS that plene vowels  to some extent were added. When 
we find  YODs before the root consonants of  YIQTOLs with prefixed WAW in 
some cases and these YODs are lacking in others, we cannot know whether the 
verbs originally were written defectively and each YOD  is an added plene 
vowel, or whether the YODs were original parts of the verb form, and thus 
were deleted in the forms forms without YODs. Therefore, the only examples 
from unpointed texts where apocopated forms can be seen are lamed he verbs.

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Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo